Herbarium specimen: Colchicum autumnale

Taxon:	Liliaceae: Colchicum autumnale L. ("Meadow Saffron") named by Ivor W Evans who says it is mostly white in that wood, but the normal plant is also there
Filed in taxon folder:	Liliaceae: Colchicum autumnale L. ("Meadow Saffron")
Collected by:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Collection date:	29/8/1935
Locality:	Great Britain, VC6 North Somerset, Wolland, wood near base of Wolland Hill
ex herb:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	with pure white flowers I sent several to Reading Univ. NB all the white ones turned a dirty colour on being dried and pressed with a hot iron

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Documented by ml.roberts on 1^st April 2010.

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